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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

China Practices Blockades on Last Scheduled Day of Taiwan Drills

File photo: China's Liaoning aircraft carrier sailing during a drill in the South China Sea in 2018. Photo: AFP

China's military carried out aerial and naval blockade drills around Taiwan on Monday, its last scheduled day of exercises, with a Chinese aircraft carrier joining in combat patrols as Taipei reported another surge of warplanes near the island.

China announced the three days of drills on Saturday, after Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taipei following a meeting in Los Angeles with US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Reuters said.

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